Your Flight Attendants

Katherine Phelps (Muse)

The mad creative spirit who committed this atrocity together with
Xanni.

Her background is diverse and peculiar. Family members have
a number of stories about her leaving poems on any scraps of paper
she could find from grade school years, and she would frequently
write puppet-plays that she would inflict upon friends and relations.
Her mother was an art teacher, so she grew up learning intimately about
the relationship between paint and canvas. She modelled for over seven
years for a Finnish artist and upon occasion is still inspired to model
for the Victorian Artists Society. For most of her young life she
took ballet lessons until it became obvious that she was going to be
too tall for classical dance, so she switched to opera. Amazingly, she
did quite well and even received a scholarship to study with a soloist
from the San Francisco Opera.

However, her constant love remained
storytelling and in June 1985 she received a bachelors in literature
with creative writing emphasis and departmental and college honors from
the University of Washington. In 1988 she received an MFA in creative
writing, also from the University of Washington. Her book Surf's Up:
Internet Australian Style was published by Reed Books in April 1995.
In 1999 she became Dr. Phelps for her studies in computer-mediated
storytelling at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Katherine is a neo-phile, technophile, fringe-phile, xenophile, creative
artist, philosopher and aspires someday to becoming a Discordian saint.
She absolutely adores animation, puppetry and humor which is why she
runs the successful Gummi Bear Fan Club. She is known to hang
out at the Chinese Cinema and has a weakness for vegetarian sushi.
Her favourite colour is usually blue, but likes wearing psychedelics.
She plans on keeping her inner child outer for the rest of her days.

Andrew Pam (Xanni)

Andrew first discovered an interest in boolean logic when his mother
carried him in her arms at just the right height to reach light
switches as they passed through doorways. He was lucky enough to go to
a school with an obsolete PDP/8e: switches, lights, core memory, paper
tape, punched cards and all. He first started programming on a TRS-80
model 1 level I and the first computer he owned was a Commodore
VIC-20. Since then he's had a go at nearly everything in the micro
field and has been a professional computer consultant under the name of
Serious Cybernetics for
over a decade, getting his first job even before leaving high
school. He ran a FidoNet BBS for seven years and has recently been
heavily involved in the Internet.

Andrew is a neo-phile, fringe-phile, xenophile subculture junkie with
delusions of being an incarnation of Monkey. He is co-founder of the
Gummi Bear Fan Club and has been known to publish a fanzine on
at least three occasions. His favourite colour is grey - no, no,
blue! Aaaarrgghhhhh.....